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Dick Leitsch (1935-2018) was an American gay rights activist and author. Leitsch, who served as president of the Mattachine Society of New York from 1965 through 1971, is best known for organizing Mattachine's "Sip-in" protest of 1966. The Dick Leitsch papers, which date from the 1940s to 2018, reveal his activist efforts, writing career, and personal pursuits through journals, correspondence, manuscripts and published articles, research files, photographs, clippings, and ephemera. less